Dallas Pedestrian Network
The Dallas Pedestrian Network is a system of grade-separated walkways covering thirty-six city blocks of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA.[1] The system connects buildings, garages and parks through underground tunnels and above-ground skybridges. The network contains an underground city of shops, restaurants and offices during weekday business hours.
Contents
Connected to the Dallas Pedestrian Network
Hotels:
- Sheraton Dallas Hotel
- Fairmont Hotel
- Marriott City Center Dallas
- Hotel Indigo
- Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown
Office Buildings:
- Comerica Bank Tower
- Chase Tower
- 1700 Pacific
- Bank of America Plaza
- Renaissance Tower
- Fountain Place
- Plaza of the Americas
- Bryan Tower
- KPMG Centre
- Patriot Tower
- Energy Plaza
- Lincoln Plaza
- One Main Place
- Republic Center
- Pacific Place
- Corrigan Tower
- 1600 Pacific Tower
- Elm Place
Parks
- Cancer Survivors Plaza
- Thanks-Giving Square
Residential Buildings
Other
- First Baptist Church
- Universities Center at Dallas
- Tower Petroleum Building
- Majestic Garage
- Elm Street Garage
- Metropolitan Garage
Changing attitudes
In 2005, then-mayor Laura Miller told the New York Times the system of tunnels was "the worst urban planning decision that Dallas has ever made... if I could take a cement mixer and pour cement in and clog up the tunnels, I would do it today".[2]
The Dallas Pedestrian Network is targeted for de-emphasis by the Downtown Dallas 360 initiative, in an effort to bring more focus on street-level activity. While initial plans had called for a more direct shutdown, a report in April 2012 concluded that a series of measures discouraging further growth or unnecessary maintenance of the system were all that were called for; Downtown Dallas Inc. CEO John Crawford concluded, "[The underground tunnels] aren't much of an issue anymore."
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.
<references />, or <references group="..." />External links
- Map of Pedestrian System on Google Maps
- Photos of Pedestrian Network
- http://id.erudit.org/revue/uhr/2009/v37/n2/029574ar.pdf "Ultramodern Underground Dallas: Vincent Ponte’s Pedestrian-Way as Systematic Solution to the Declining Downtown" by Charissa N. Terranova
- The Dallas Morning News, "Walking the Underground Tunnel"
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-10494416/Ultramodern-underground-Dallas-Vincent-Ponte.html
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
